[MPlayer-cygwin] build directory

[Sascha Sommer]

> Does the build directry approach work on cygwin?
> I have mplayer cvs files in ./mplayer dir, ./mplayer_build is empty. 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> -
> netchan at gyogyi /usr/local/src
> $ cd mplayer-build/
> 
> netchan at gyogyi /usr/local/src/mplayer-build
> $ uname -a
> CYGWIN_NT-5.1 gyogyi 1.5.3(0.90/3/2) 2003-09-01 13:15 i686 unknown unk
> nown Cygwin
> 
> netchan at gyogyi /usr/local/src/mplayer-build
> $ ../mplayer/configure --prefix=/usr/local/mplayer --enable-runtime-cp
> pudetection --cc=/usr/bin/gcc-2
> Detected operating system: CYGWIN
> Detected host architecture: i386
> Checking for /usr/bin/gcc-2 version ... 2.95.3-10, ok
> Checking for CPU vendor ... GenuineIntel (15:2:4)
> Checking for CPU type ...         Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 Mobile CPU 1.7
> 0GHz
> Checking for GCC & CPU optimization abilities ... pentium4
> Checking for assembler (/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/2.95.3-10/../.
> ./../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/as.exe 2.14.90) ... ok
> Checking for extra headers ... none
> Checking for extra libs ... none
> Checking for i18n ... yes (using -lintl)
> Checking for setlocale() ... yes
> Checking for language ... using en (man pages: )
> 
> Error: help/help_mp-en.h not found
> 
> Check "configure.log" if you do not understand why it failed.
> 
> netchan at gyogyi /usr/local/src/mplayer-build
> $ ln -s ../mplayer/help .
> 
> netchan at gyogyi /usr/local/src/mplayer-build
> $ ../mplayer/configure --prefix=/usr/local/mplayer --enable-runtime-cp
> pudetection --cc=/usr/bin/gcc-2
> 
> Then the configure script runs fine, but there's no Makefile:
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> netchan at gyogyi /usr/local/src/mplayer-build
> $ make
> make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.
> 
> netchan at gyogyi /usr/local/src/mplayer-build
> $ ls
> config.h  config.mak  configure.log  help  help_mp.h
> 

Sorry, but I don't understand what you are talking about. Just extract
an mplayer tarball somewhere and run ./configure from there.

Sascha